County employee hit while walking to work denied Workers Comp

11:01 AM,
Apr. 2, 2014

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A Morris County worker who was struck by a car while walking from an employer-designated parking garage to her office in Morristown in 2010 is not entitled to Workers' Compensation benefits because neither the garage nor the public street she was crossing are controlled or owned by the county, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

The court's unanimous decision in the case of county Board of Elections senior Clerk Cheryl Hersh, 47, reverses a 2012 ruling by a state appellate court panel that found Hersh was entitled to Workers' Compensation benefits. The appeals panel, which upheld the ...